Ubuntu/Linux disable extra Mouse Buttons Microsoft Comfort Mouse 4500

I find it very annoying that this mouse has buttons on the side where you grip it and the left one goes back in the browser and the right one goes forward. Imagine if you\'re filling out a form and hit it, most forms/websites have no protection against it.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2065400

Here's how I fixed it with xinput, it\'s too bad there\'s no good standard GUI tool to set mouse buttons:

xinput list

This will show your input devices, in my case "10" was the case.

xinput list 10 Microsoft Microsoft® Comfort Mouse 4500 id=10 [slave pointer (2)] Reporting 5 classes: Class originated from: 10 Buttons supported: 13 Button labels: Button Left Button Middle Button Right Button Wheel Up Button Wheel Down Button Horiz Wheel Left Button Horiz Wheel Right Button Side Button Extra Button Unknown Button Unknown Button Unknown Button Unknown Button state: Class originated from: 10 Keycodes supported: 248 Class originated from: 10 Detail for Valuator 0: Label: Abs X Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000 Resolution: 1 units/m Mode: relative Class originated from: 10 Detail for Valuator 1: Label: Abs Y Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000 Resolution: 1 units/m Mode: relative Class originated from: 10 Detail for Valuator 2: Label: Abs Gas Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000 Resolution: 1 units/m Mode: relative

Solution

It is tedious but copy and paste the "Button labels" and put each one in a text file (that has numbered lines) and separate each "Button" at the beginning of each like this (this will make it easier to number each button you want and disable them).